Emergency Preparedness

Either this Merit Badge or Lifesaving MB
is Required to earn the Eagle Scout Rank

Earn the First Aid Merit Badge.

Do the following:

Discuss with your counselor the aspects of emergency preparedness:

Prepare for emergency situations

Respond to emergency situations

Recover from emergency situations

Mitigate and prevent emergency situations

Include in your discussion the kinds of questions that are important
to ask yourself as you consider each of these.

Make a chart that demonstrates your understanding of each of
the aspects of emergency preparedness in requirement 2a (prepare,
respond, recover, mitigate, and prevent) with regard to 10 of the
situations listed below. You must use situations 1, 2, 3,
4, and 5 below in boldface but you may choose any other
five listed here for a total of 10 situations. Discuss this chart
with your counselor.

Home kitchen fire

Home basement/storage room/garage fire

Explosion in the home

Automobile accident

Food-borne disease (food poisoning)

Fire or explosion in a public place

Vehicle stalled in the desert

Vehicle trapped in a blizzard

Flash flooding in town or in the country

Mountain/backcountry accident

Boating accident

Gas leak in a home or a building

Tornado or hurricane

Major flood

Nuclear power plant emergency

Avalanche (snowslide or rockslide)

Violence in a public place

Meet with and teach your family how to get or build a kit, make
a plan, and be informed for the situations on the chart you created
for requirement 2b. Complete a family plan. Then meet with your
counselor and report on your family meeting, discuss their responses,
and share your family plan.

Show how you could safely save a person from the following:

Touching a live household electric wire.

A room filled with carbon monoxide

Clothes on fire.

Drowning using nonswimming rescues (including accidents on ice).

Show three ways of attracting and communicating with rescue planes/aircraft.

With another person, show a good way to transport an injured person
out of a remote and/or rugged area, conserving the energy of rescuers
while ensuring the well-being and protection of the injured person.

Do the following:

Tell the things a group of Scouts should be prepared to do,
the training they need , and the safety precautions they should
take for the following emergency services:

Crowd and traffic control

Messenger service and communication.

Collection and distribution services.

Group feeding, shelter, and sanitation.

Identify the government or community agencies that normally
handle and prepare for the emergency services listed under 6a, and
explain to your counselor how a group of Scouts could volunteer
to help in the event of these types of emergencies.

Find out who is your community's emergency management director
and learn what this person does to prepare, respond to,
recover from, and mitigate and prevent
emergency situations in your community. Discuss this information
with your counselor and apply what you discover to the chart you
created for requirement 2b.

Take part in an emergency service project, either a real one or
a practice drill, with a Scouting unit or a community agency.

Do the following:

Prepare a written plan for mobilizing your troop when needed
to do emergency service. If there is already a plan, explain it.
Tell your part in making it work.

Take part in at least one troop mobilization. Before the exercise,
describe your part to your counselor. Afterward, conduct an "after-action"
lesson, discussing what you learned during the exercise that required
changes or adjustments to the plan.

Prepare a personal emergency service pack for a mobilization
call. Prepare a family kit (suitcase or waterproof box) for use
by your family in case an emergency evacuation is needed. Explain
the needs and uses of the contents.

Do ONE of the following:

Using a safety checklist approved by your counselor, inspect
your home for potential hazards. Explain the hazards you find and
how they can be corrected.

Review or develop a plan of escape for your family in case of
fire in your home.

Develop an accident prevention program for five family activities
outside the home (such as taking a picnic or seeing a movie) that
includes an analysis of possible hazards, a proposed plan to correct
those hazards, and the reasons for the corrections you propose.

For Requirement 9a you may wish to use this checklist:
(The checklist is already included in the worksheets below.)

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